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Chinese Police Built AI Tools to Infiltrate Dark Web Content
Law enforcement researchers developed specialized systems to bypass encryption, collect data, and classify Chinese-language material on anonymous networks.
Meta Smartglasses Raise Child Safety Concerns in AI Era
Wearable tech enables covert filming while AI transforms stolen images into abuse material, prompting calls for stronger regulation.
Public sector AI success should be measured by citizen outcomes, not adoption metrics
Snowflake's Field CTO argues governments risk losing sight of service improvement by tracking chatbot usage and token consumption instead of real-world results.
London Employers Report Widening AI Skills Gap as Automation Reshapes Work
New research shows only half of London's workforce has needed skills, down from 63% a year ago, as AI transforms job requirements across the capital.
AI Chatbots Give Unreliable Voting Advice, Hungary Study Finds
Research during Hungarian elections reveals major AI models recommended non-existent parties and showed systematic bias in party visibility.
Big Tech's Off-Balance-Sheet AI Debt Hits $1.65 Trillion
Data center leases and GPU contracts create hidden liabilities that dwarf reported debt at Meta, Oracle, and other tech giants.
Microsoft's Copilot Skills Transform One-Time Tasks Into Automation
Principal architect reveals how reasoning models and reusable skills are moving enterprise AI beyond summarization into full workflow execution.
Claude AI Responds Differently Based on Language, Study Finds
Anthropic research reveals systematic variations in tone and values across 20 languages, raising questions about consistency in AI outputs.
Zalando Invests in Sereact's $116M Round for Warehouse AI
Europe's largest fashion platform backs Stuttgart-based robotics firm to automate returns handling and fulfillment operations.
Hugging Face Deploys Chinese AI Model to Defend Against Autonomous Cyber Attack
After U.S. AI guardrails blocked defensive response, the company turned to Z.ai's GLM 5.2 to analyze an agent-driven breach.
Turkish Cargo Doubles Istanbul Hub Capacity to 4.5M Tons
Lödige Industries will automate the SMARTIST 2.0 expansion, building on systems deployed in 2021 to cement Istanbul's role as a global air freight gateway.
Sony expands Udio lawsuit to 30,000 songs after AI training data discovery
The music giant filed a new complaint in New York federal court after audio fingerprinting analysis identified additional copyrighted works in the AI generator's training set.
YouTube bars AI-generated content from monetization in three categories
The video platform clarifies which types of inauthentic content cannot earn revenue through its Partner Program.
Tempus AI Acquires Personalis for $1.5B in Cancer Diagnostics Deal
The AI-driven precision medicine company will absorb the maker of a blood test that detects cancer recurrence, but investors sent both stocks lower.
OpenAI's $100B Ad Revenue Goal Faces 90% Shortfall by 2030
Marketing analysts project the entire chatbot advertising market will reach just $5.4 billion — a fraction of what OpenAI alone expects to earn.
Free Chinese AI Model Kimi Splits Trump Administration Officials
Moonshot's open-source model rivals OpenAI and Anthropic at no cost, triggering public feuds among White House AI advisors over how to respond.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Narrows Gap Between Open and Closed Models
The 2.8 trillion parameter model from China ranks among frontier AI systems and will release weights publicly on July 27.
AI Agent Automates Semiconductor Design Rule Checking Scripts
Seoul National University and Samsung develop Rule2DRC benchmark to translate design rules into executable verification code.
Weak AI Safety Rules May Backfire, New Research Finds
A Cornell-Carnegie Mellon study reveals how poorly designed regulation can create perverse incentives across the AI supply chain.
Model Context Protocol update removes scaling bottleneck
The infrastructure layer connecting AI models to external data is shifting to stateless sessions, making enterprise deployments significantly easier.
Ivanti Uses LLMs to Find and Fix Critical Vulnerabilities
The company's AI-powered security project is discovering flaws traditional tools miss and automatically remediating code weaknesses.
Commerce AI Safety Chief Resigns After Three Months
Dr. Chris Fall's departure from CAISI adds to leadership turbulence as federal AI testing responsibilities expand across agencies.
Natural Raises $30M to Build Payment Rails for Autonomous AI Agents
The startup aims to replace human-dependent financial infrastructure with systems designed for agents that transact at machine speed.
Bristol Myers Squibb builds drug R&D supercomputer with Nvidia
The pharmaceutical giant is deploying what it calls the most powerful single-owned AI infrastructure in life sciences to accelerate drug discovery.